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Last updated 19.02.08

Accessing Your Floppies

When you are using the PC based workstations, you can access the floppy drive using a set of software tools for manipulating MS-DOS or Windows files, called mtools. Using these tools you are able to copy MS-DOS files to your UNIX environment, and back again. For example, to copy a MS-DOS file called ass1.m from a floppy to the current directory type:

% mcopy a:/ass1.m .

To copy a file called ass1.m from your current directory to the top directory on your floppy disk, type:

% mcopy ass1.m a:

Note that the conversion between UNIX and MS-DOS format is handled for you.

To get a directory listing of the floppy disk, type:

% mdir

These tools are discussed further in Floppy Disk Commands (section 2.3.3, page [*]). There are many other tools available in the mtools suite. To find out more about them have a look at the online manual pages.

% man mtools



Loc Van Huynh 2007-03-15
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